The FCC’s proposed reduction in USF rate-of-return support...
The FCC’s proposed reduction in USF rate-of-return support “would negatively impact Big Bend’s operations at a time when the impacts of USF-[intercarrier compensation] reforms are still being implemented and the full impacts are not known,” the Texas telco told officials…
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from several commissioners’ offices and the Wireline Bureau last week, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1ghtkKO). The bureau’s May staff report recommended reducing the rate of return to between 8.06 and 8.72 percent; that would be “a threat to financial stability” and would harm Big Bend’s ability to get new loans to build out broadband, the telco said. “Service and customers in rural, remote, and high-cost areas like Big Bend’s service area will suffer due to lack of ability to maintain and invest in new network.”